Mooney M-18LA
N488M is a Mooney M-18LA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in South Padre Island, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 27, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M-18LA · all M-18LAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 103
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A60764 (octal 51403544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 27, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00270425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slaughter Jan K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 3411
South Padre Island, TX 78597-3411
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N488M, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Slaughter Jan K, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2000, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 27, 1956, 5 years after the 1951 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N488M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Overcashier Frank 0-100 (serial 1, cancelled January 11, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N488M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data